The black-and-white attacks seen in Senate and House races fade to a muddled gray in the nation’s governors’ races. For starters, most of this year’s competitive campaigns are in states Obama won in 2012, making attacks on the law and the president less potent than in the red states that will determine control of the Senate.

The position of Senate candidates is also crystal-clear. House Republicans running for the Senate have all voted to repeal Obamacare; the Senate Democrats running for reelection all voted to enact it. Governors, however, have a different record to run on. More than half a dozen Republican governors have expanded Medicaid (which in the eyes of some their RGA colleagues makes them complicit in the law’s implementation), leaving attacks on the issue somewhere between tricky and impossible.

As we move toward the fall, you may even see Democrats go on the offense against Republicans on the issue.

The Obama administration project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. First, the network would build a Cuban audience, mostly young people; then, the plan was to push them toward dissent.

“Yet its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them, in the hope that the information might be used someday for political purposes.”

This isn’t the kind of thing AID normally does, which makes you wonder if some people there got a little too excited about enacting a tech version of an old-school Cold War cloak-and-dagger scheme.

* Kentucky may have had more success with the Affordable Care Act than any other state, slashing the ranks of their uninsured by over 40 percent. Harry Reid used the figures to mock his counterpart Mitch McConnell: “I wonder when my friend from Kentucky will explain to the 270,000 Kentuckians how he plans to repeal the law without stripping their new health benefits.”

* Speaking of Kentucky, Matt Bevin, McConnell’s Tea Party challenger, is still dealing with the fallout from his appearance at a rally put on by the Gamefowl Defense Network, i.e. a group of cockfighting advocates. He says he had no idea what the rally was about, but the Humane Society is not pleased with Bevin. “I don’t know how you accidentally stumble into a cockfighting rally,” wondered Joe Scarborough.

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